NBC Invites Former Mexican President to Trash Trump

Kyle Drennen | January 27, 2017
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In a softball interview with former Mexican president Vicente Fox on Friday’s NBC Today, the morning show hosts teed up the foreign leader to denounce President Trump’s immigration and border security policies while ignoring a series of inflammatory statements from Fox.

At the top of the show, co-host Matt Lauer hyped: “Showdown. President Trump and Mexico's president locked in a fiery spat over who will foot the bill for that border wall.” He then teased: “This morning we'll be joined by the former Mexican leader, who famously said this about the controversy.” A soundbite followed of Fox’s profanity-laced tirade against Trump during the 2016 campaign: “I’m not pay for that f***king [bleeped] wall.”

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